Re: CHAT: The Conlang Instinct

J Barefoot>>>>>>
On a related but far-fetched subject: At a very early stage of deveplopment
of Asiteya, I had created a verb "yasan" - to dwell. Months later, having
forgotten about its existence, I needed a word for house. Rolling sounds
around on my tongue for a while, I found "yasi" tasted just right.
Unrelated events of creation, related words. It makes me think, perhaps
these languages are already fully formed, deep in the subconscious, waiting
for the intellect to discover them.  Has anyone else had expereinces like
this?
<<<<<<

That's the questionable but enjoyable theory of "phonosemantics".
Someone on the list was kind enough to post some URLs when I asked about this,
unfortunately I appear to have lost track of them.





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